With two Republicans in the Gainesville City Commission runoff elections, the Alachua County GOP has entered the YouTube fray.

On Tuesday, the party posted a 51-second video of District 3 candidate Susan Bottcher, the state committeewoman for the county Democratic Party, saying at a party after the election that the community will stay “progressive” after the April 12 runoffs are over.

“This is an important fight,” she said. “This is an important statement that we’re making for Gainesville — that we are a progressive community. We’re going to stay a progressive community. We’re going to fight back against the forces that say that we’ve been wrong because we are not wrong.”

Then brakes screech and the screen reads, “OH REALLY?” before listing issues the GOP believes the current commission was wrong about — “Fire Assessment Fee,” “CHOICES” (a county program that the city has no oversight of), “Bio-mass Plant,” “Mom’s Kitchen,” “HIGHEST taxes in Florida” (emphasis theirs), “High & Increasing GRU Bills” and “hiring campaign staff to work for City” (a reference to Mayor Craig Lowe’s former campaign manager being hired to be his policy and research assistant).

On Election Day, Bottcher got 41.8 percent of the vote while Rob Zeller, a registered Republican, finished second with 30.7 percent. As no one got more than 50 percent, the two advanced to a runoff.

Update (March 24, 2:30 p.m.) | Stafford Jones, the chairman of the Alachua County Republican Executive Committee, called to point out that the party realizes that CHOICES is a county program.

“The point was she’s talking about progressive policies in the community in general,” Jones said, adding that more videos along the same lines would be posted soon.

Morgan Watkins, a University of Florida grad, joined the Sun in August 2012 as its county government reporter. She keeps you updated on what’s happening inside county meetings and outside in local neighborhoods. If you think something might make a good story, let her know at morgan.watkins@gvillesun.com.